Sir_Vet
Swordsman
posted 05-04-08 14:05
EST (US)
26 / 44
Congratulations to all the players who submitted entries for the SH2 and SHL Quest for Gold contest.
Thank you all for entering. I will send in the results to Sulis so he can announce the winners.
I play tested the maps a lot to make sure they worked properly, when the contest started I thought I should put in an extra effort to get a good score, so I gave a few strategies a try, my best score is in the middle, other than the usual iron and pitch bread was the best for me as well as putting in hunter posts and woodcutters close to my keep, my friend and I sat here one day and we came up with making lots of wheat and flour, sent it to the stockroom for sale, we got a pretty good score at the end only to look at each other with totally stupid grins on our faces when we both realized you can't even sell wheat or flour.:-) talk about feeling stupid.
I tried to make both maps challenging, they both have 10 iron, enough buildings to give a variety of strategies, and a bit of fighting to make it interesting, the SH2 map has the Bull with some archers to cause some trouble, and to make you figure out how to get the iron safely to your stockroom, I thought one of the challenges would be in balancing out the space and carter posts, the SHL map has Hildabrand in the middle and you need to kill him and use the village even though you can't place your own buildings, that is why there are no villages in the SHL map, so I added some weapons to the mix.
When I first made the SH2 map I thought I would try and make a matching Legends map, but villages don't work the same, so I made a second SH2 map that very closely matches the Legends map, no villages except when you kill the Bull, the stockroom,grainery,and armory are in the entrance to your keep and you can build weapons and there is no snow.
I mentioned this map because I am thinking of posting it.
I hope you all enjoyed my contest and playing my maps, I could be talked into doing it again but next time with input from you players as to what you would like to see.
Thank you!
Sir_Vet
ps: extra congrats to Sir Hugh I thought I made it so you would not be able to kill the Bull.
Sir_Vet
Swordsman
posted 05-06-08 14:39
EST (US)
30 / 44
Thank's alot guys!
I sent the results to Sulis, so we will have to wait.
Lopat
Archer
posted 05-09-08 09:01
EST (US)
39 / 44
wow 53K on the SH2 map...
I only had 41K
I did play it twice... but I guess I emptied the estates to late.... Even though I did convert as much farms into carters..
What are the other scores??
Sir_Vet
Swordsman
posted 05-09-08 14:10
EST (US)
40 / 44
Well that was a fun little contest, you all came up with different strategies which made it interesting for me, and the other scores were in the 20k range, my best was 35k.
I mentioned that I could do this again, Sulis said he would be happy to see another contest by me or anybody else, and it could run at the same time as the new Stronghold and Crusader contest.
If you show interest here I will start a new thread next week to discuss what you would like to see, I have come up with a few questions and ideas, so lets see what you have to say.
Sir_Vet
Swordsman
posted 05-15-08 17:43
EST (US)
44 / 44
Hey Sulis nothing to laugh at, when I first started playing Sh2 I probably couldn't have done any better, it just shows how complex the game really is, it takes a long time to learn, that's one thing I do enjoy about it, learning.
Even though I still play Crusader, I do like SH2 better.
Happy gaming.
ps: anybody interested in a new SH2 contest.